commentators
Those offering analysis
Commentators are people who provide commentary—analysis, interpretation, or play-by-play description of events.
Sports commentators narrate games as they unfold: The commentators couldn't believe the last-second touchdown.
Political commentators offer opinions on news and policy.
The term often implies someone paid to give their views publicly, whether on television, radio, or online.
Expert commentators on affairs
- expertsHighly skilled practitioners
- panelistsDiscussion group members
- strategistsDesigners of careful plans
- economistsAnalysts of wealth distribution
pollsters · forecasters · consultants · academics · scholars · professors · historians · sociologists
Those who assess work
- columnistsRegular opinion piece authors
- editorialistsWriters of opinion pieces
- bloggersWeb content creators
- vloggersPersonal video creators
influencers · detractors · contrarians · skeptics · watchdogs · fact-checkers · satirists · lampooners
Real-time event narration
- anchorSecures ships to seabed
- sportscasterBroadcasts athletic events
- announcerOne who introduces programs
- correspondentJournalist covering distant events
booth · microphone · telecast · coverage · live · streaming · studio · halftime
pundits
Expert commentators on affairs
- expertsHighly skilled practitioners
- panelistsDiscussion group members
- strategistsDesigners of careful plans
economists · pollsters · forecasters · consultants · academics · scholars · professors · historians · sociologists · think-tank
reviewers
Those who assess work
- columnistsRegular opinion piece authors
- editorialistsWriters of opinion pieces
- bloggersWeb content creators
vloggers · influencers · detractors · contrarians · skeptics · watchdogs · fact-checkers · satirists · lampooners · hecklers
play-by-play
Real-time event narration
- anchorSecures ships to seabed
- sportscasterBroadcasts athletic events
- announcerOne who introduces programs
correspondent · booth · microphone · telecast · coverage · live · streaming · studio · halftime · highlights
opinion
Subjective personal belief
interpretation · insight · take · slant · bias · narrative · framing · spin · assessment · evaluation
- Jewish Scholarsrabbis, sages, codifiers, Baal Shem Tov, rosh yeshiva
- mediatelevision, mass media, news, broadcasting, video
- expertsexperts, expert, specialist, masters, specialists
- legal historylegal history, medieval law, Roman law, Roman jurisprudence, common law
- opinion makerspundits, columnists, editorialists, op-ed writers, talking heads
- punditspundit, analyst, talking head, opinion writer, editorialist
commentatorslisteners
Those who attend aurally
spectators · bystanders · watchers · mutes · onlookers
commentatorsparticipants
Those actively involved
performers · players · actors · athletes · subjects
- sports commentatorNarrates athletic events live
- color commentatorBroadcast voice adding context
- political commentatorAnalyst of government affairs
- news commentatorBroadcast current-events interpreter
- live commentatorPerson narrating events in real-time
- social commentatorAnalyst of cultural trends